Re: your mail

["R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr." <rbruceh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I must disagree with the "poor" implementation of PL/I on the 38 and 400. I
had RPG and COBOL both choking on a particular math problem (8 hours and
only 25% done) while the PL/I compiler had the job COMPLETED in less than 2
hours!

I have talked to some of the original developers in San Jose (or was it
Santa Theresa?) about the history of the development of PL/I on the 38 and
the implementation was as good as any, and better than many.

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R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr.
 -- IBM Certified AS/400 Professional System Administrator
 -- IBM Certified AS/400 Professional Network Administrator

"The sum of all human knowledge is a fixed constant.
    It's the population that keeps growing!"

-----Original Message-----
From: Don <dr2@cssas400.com>
To: Jon.Paris@halinfo.it <Jon.Paris@halinfo.it>
Cc: midrange-l@midrange.com <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Date: Tuesday, January 11, 2000 1:52 PM
Subject: Re: your mail


>
>
>I think you're right...there was a poor implementation of both FORTRAN and
>PL/I on the 38 and early 400....  But I think FORTAN's been long history..
>
>>
>>  >> Actually, if the AS/400 has a FORTRAN compiler
>>
>> It doesn't it was dumped some time ago - I don't think it ever made it to
the
>> Risc boxes.
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